Printing invention and Notre Dame de Paris
As it is well known, the basic idea
of Victor Hugo was to denounce that the invention of Gutenberg, the printing
press would, or will, when he stated that, destroy architecture, more specifically,
Gothic architecture.
To understand what was about to be "destroyed", take a look at
a brief description of the Cathedral
What is at stake here can be better understood when we think about why Socrates and Jesus never wrote anything.
Point of view: Understanding
Why Socrates and Jesus Christ didn't write anything?
Everything we know from Socrates comes from Plato, that tells us the following, in Phaedrus:
"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories, they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. Your invention is not an aid to memory... You give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing."
"Writing is one thing, and knowledge another. Writing is a photograph of knowledge, but not the knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light in everyone. It is the heritage of all our ancestors were able to learn and that is latent in all that we transmitted, as well as the baobab already exists in potential in its seed. "
What is at stake under Victor Hugo concern, what was the main stream of culture and how it was transmitted can be better understood looking at the following:, which gives a visual ideal of the Scriptures and what Joyce is after to re create, with a difference which follows suit:
The Gothic Architecture was the epitome of representation of the following, in sculptures, stained glasses, everything it contains:
With one "slight" difference...He is re creating God and in Finnegans. One of the thunders refers to the creation and fall of man and God stutters because he committed a sin creating man... Take a look at Prof.James S Atherton observation.
As matter of fact, Joyce proposes to reverse roles with Him... It can be better understood taking a look on how Christianism sees it.